If only a few thousands of Americans had encounters, I we would not see so many reports that included references to other eyewitnesses who also had sightings. Long before getting this report early in 2018, I had concluded that at least some modern pterosaurs in the United States navigate by following stream beds or storm channels. Reports of Living Pterosaurs in the Southwest Pacific gives you a better look at the ropen of Papua New Guinea. . Thats when some of the media in that area responded to my press release. FRESNO, July 31. Yes, it is true: We really do have at least a few species of modern pterosaurs still flying overhead. Here's the report from October 10, 2017 (anon. The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur is a nonfiction book, but its not technically about dinosaurs: Its a short cryptozoology book about apparent living pterosaurs. With many photos, this is an online map of what is probably the oldest modern-pterosaur site ever published: Pterosaurs Still Living. Ten years ago this summer (2007), the young cryptozoologist Scott T. Norman had a sighting of an apparent Pteranodon in Central California. Sightings; Podcast; Toys. On a Sunday morning, at a few minutes after six, the driver saw three dragons flying over the I-5 freeway, just 175 feet or so to the west of the nearbank of theLos Angeles River. At first I thought it was a vulture. Around 4 p.m. . This story was even featured in the Australian People Magazine and theorizes that pterodactyls inhabit the still-mysterious Amazon Rainforest. . I was driving a car alone, on my way to pick up my sister. ., I found this book very interesting. . For sighting #1, in the words of an eyewitness, "It turned its head and looked right at me". . a 38-year-old woman saw what she at first called a dragon pteradactal. The featherless winged creature was sitting on a telephone cable above her backyard, on June 19, 2012 . This scientific paper, peer-reviewed in a journal of science years ago, is briefly featured in this video . Washington I received an email from man who reported a pair of ropen-like creatures in the state of Washington. my girlfriend has 20-20 vision and she told a few minutes later that it had lights on it. . Facts Analysis: . . Fossils of the creatures have been uncovered in China, India, and Vietnam. Stories of flying reptiles have been recorded for many hundreds of years. . Contemporary pterosaur sightings A nonfiction-cryptozoology author has analyzed reports of non-extinct pterosaurs, commonly called "pterodactyls" or "flying dinosaurs," and found how sightings relate to thirty-three states (and Washington D.C.) of the United States. . Two sightings of a "dragon" were in Lakewood, California, and another eyewitness reported three dragons flying together over the I-5 freeway just east of Griffith Park in Los Angeles. Principal focus of this study is the nocturnal flight dynamics, vision (electro-optical systems analysis) and the general physical characterization of the animal in flight, level and at angle-of-attack. . The most recent sighting had been just fifteen days earlier, between Griffith Park and Glendale. Sandra had to drive on. These two paperbacks include much information about ropens. . The man who was driving has had to be anonymous because of his professional position (either a medical doctor, attorney, or police officerI will not even reveal which of those three it is). I can only describe . I was convinced of the reality of long-tailed ropens of the southwest Pacific, but assumed they live there because of the vast tropical wildernesses, providing them warmth, food, and seclusion. Of the 41 sightings reported in California, 7 are featured in the new Youtube video "Giant Pterodactyl in California." Most of the encounters in the video were in Southern California. . But why is it reported to live in many areas of the planet? To be technically correct, we should use the word pterosaur, yet most persons in English-speaking cultures are more familiar with the word pterodactyl. It glided through the air with its wings in an arched position. A few skeptics have declared that no bird watchers have ever seen a modern pterosaur. A great number of the encounters with pterodactyls have been in these states: Alguna vez viste un pterosaurio? Age: 68. . Yet these featherless flying creatures have been encountered in other areas of the United States, including California. . Estimated Number of Sightings of Pterosaurs in the United States. O'Donnell (2006), Gerhard (2007), and a few others relate still other sightings China, Scotland, and Vietnam. Hasbro Lines - Main Lines - Collector Lines - Movie LInes; Takara Lines - Main Lines - Collector Lines; 3rd Party; Comics. . Enjoy this lively music video as you learn about the shocking flying creatures men and women have encountered in California. Web There were a flurry of sightings in the 1940s and 50s before in 1961 Craig Black claimed to have seen a female carrying a pouched cub in Ben Lomond National. [from the book Live Pterosaurs in America, third edition], "Live Pterosaurs in America" takes you across the United States, with eyewitnesses who describe the amazing encounters they have had with living pterosaurs. What you believe the creature was: Pterodactyl. A man (who has two college degrees in biology) and his son together had a sighting in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio. One of the men told me, It was about 8 pm. Two of the more common words used to describe flying creatures that look like pterosaurs are dragon and pterodactyl, at least in the United States. . pterodactyls) hunt bats at night. Lets consider each of these sightings in Southern California, in order of how close each flying creature was to a storm channel or stream bed. . COLUMN: UFO sighting stats show a focus on Baker County. Lake Isabella in California - pterodactyl or ropen sighting near here Large flying creature in California I was fishing for crappie April, 2020, at Lake Isabella an hour above Bakersfield Calif. That means we actually have a huge number of eyewitnesses in the USA. . The final publication may differ, at least in a few details. I saw this large dark colored flying animal. 6. . a dragon or flying dinosaur. Except for its size, this flying creature resembles the ropen seen flying into the San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary in Orange County, California, in 2007. I slowed down and asI was looking the birds suddenly BURST from one of the trees! A few days ago (early in May of 2019), I uploaded a video to the Youtube channel Protect Animal Life. It flew right in front of my car seemingly almost fell out of the trees trying to gather wind under its huge wings. . Published in October of 2014, Searching for Ropens and Finding God will take you around the world, with those who have risked life, health, and reputation, as they have looked for living pterosaurs. The landscape photograph on the cover shows the San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary in Irvine, California, near where a pterosaur (ropen) was reported flying in 2007 Patty Carson saw the strange flying creature at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba around 1965 and sketched it more recently. I am a scientist, and I have discovered that the great majority of eyewitness sighting reports of extant pterosaurs are neither misidentifications nor hoaxes . A lady reported observing a huge dragon pteradactal that had been perched, at about noon on June 19, 2012, on a phone line or cable company wire over her backyard. A nonfiction-cryptozoology author has analyzed reports of non-extinct pterosaurs, commonly called pterodactyls or flying dinosaurs, and found how sightings relate to thirty-three states (and Washington, Patty Carsons sketch of the ropen she saw. . . That man was a scientist. . . . pterodactyls. . . Not one of those sightings was very far from a storm channel or stream bed. . I wrote the nonfiction book The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur for several purposes. [The many credible reports of apparent pterosaurs are not misidentified birds but actual pterosaurs, in at least the great majority of cases. . Tim Dinsdale (1924-1987), Loch Ness Monster researcher [6] Jonathan Downes (b. . These are dragons who lived in the carboniferous age, but who forgot to get petrified . With a wingspan larger than a Conder (12-15 ft) fly in and perch on the tree I was casting my fishing line towards. My associates and I have helped each other a great deal over the years, although much of our work has been independent to a great deal. Even more shocking was the ropen sighting near the University of California at Irvine, in 2007, for that modern pterosaur was gigantic: 30 feet long. . Granted, a mile from any storm channel or stream bed in Los Angeles County (see Sherman Oaks above) takes in a lot of area; but five of the above eight sightings were well under half a mile, and the Lakewood sighting was of an apparent ropen almost directly above a channel. . . Date of sighting: Summer of 1968. . . Los Angeles River, near location of sighting of May 13, 2013 . Non-extinct pterosaurs in North Carolina Where do these flying creatures appear? They became especially . The animals are also called "pterodactyls" or even "flying dinosaurs" or "dinosaur birds". andI had to move on. it didnt look like a bird . . . A girl saw a pterodactyl [a nonfiction cryptozoology book] Some of the benefits for the young reader: What is it? In that same general area, about two years later, Susan Wooten witnessed a huge flying creature: "as big as any car and had NO feathers." As of early May, 2022, this channel had about 230 videos about modern living pterosaurs, a.k.a. . I sit on my living room couch and talk to the camera. it turned around and it stood still in the air, it was flapping its wings while it was there. [near Maryland-Virginia border], Live Pterosaurs in America, third edition, by Whitcomb. . This video answers that question . . Here are some more modern accounts: While other reports of pterosaur-like creatures have come out of Arizona, Mexico and Crete, it is out of central Africa that some of the most interesting anecdotes have come. Web Dinosaurs are running rampant all around California Washington and Oregon as well as Nevada and Utah so if you live in those states expect to see them. described the ropen-like creature: about 30 feet long, with a straight tail 15-16 feet long. Eyewitness was almost positive it was not a bird There have been a number of alleged pterosaur sightings around the world. The most recent sighting had been just fifteen days earlier, between Griffith Park and Glendale. Instead, we are left with mere amazing accounts and a handful of poor photos. Scott T. Norman (1964-2008) was a dedicated cryptozoology researcher who had traveled to Africa and South America to investigate mystery animals. I would think of myself as someone who knows a little something of the animal kingdom. Sighting was for 15-20 seconds; Scott was the most skeptical of the observers; It looked like a pterosaur, but he was not 100% sure. This morning at about 6 a.m. This is a Youtube channel trailer video for Protect Animal Life, with brief excerpts from seven living-pterosaur videos, out of about 170 total videos on this channel, almost all of which relate to pterodactyl sightings . The creature had thick black, leathery skin, a beak full of sharp teeth, long talons for feet, and membrane-like wings that spanned 10 feet, 7 inches, by their measure. Ive learned some things, over the past fifteen years, about how people happen to see featherless flying creatures that appear to be living pterosaurs. Pterodactyl is the common word many people use to describe to two famous pterosaurs of the Mesozoic Era: Pteranodon and Pterodactylus. Lets consider what the eyewitnesses say,in their ownwords. Taking measurements, they reported that the monster was 92 feet long with a 160-foot wingspan and a mouth full of sharp teeth. . Looking ahead and up a hill,I saw a flock of crows cross the road, from right to left, followed byyep, you guessed it. Or why do they assume that if a few bird watchers saw a living pterodactyl then the whole western world would suddenly believe in those large featherless flying creatures? In both cases, the "dragon" (or "pterodactyl") was near a storm channel. By the reckoning of one source, the area around Baker City is something of a focal point for UFO sightings. While many experts believe the drawing is a bird, the beak, head prominence, wings, and legs also look very much like those of a pterosaur. . I looked back at the road and witnessed the man swerve off the road and flip his van into [a field next to the road]. Only two feet awaythats how close the creature was (horizontally)to the concrete wall of the channel. This is a short cryptozoology book, not about religion but about eyewitness sightings of apparent living pterosaurs. Living pterosaurs (or pterodactyls) in California Sightings included in CA: Fremont Anaheim . Sometimes an eyewitness will remain quiet about seeing a live pterodactyl until he or she learns that a friend or member of the family has also seen such a flying creature. I live in central [New Mexico]. . - the ROPEN #shortshttps://youtu.be/DP5hB0tAhGQDo Pterodactyls Live in Hawaii?https://youtu.be/PNziChtLIwAPterodactyl Sightings - Ropen Overheadhttps://youtu.be/hc-RuKvZviUFlying Dinosaur in Cook County, Illinoishttps://youtu.be/jDMjMK3bF3g* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Watch \"Pterodactyl Sightings in Central California\" https://youtu.be/QyqMNHWSADcYou might also enjoy \"Pterodactyl Sightings in Los Angeles\" https://youtu.be/BM4lju1L5mE*Have you, or someone you know, seen a living pterodactyl? This has a different format than the other videos that I uploaded to my Youtube channel Protect Animal Life, although its a common style on Youtube. In the summer of 1891, southeast of Fresno, several eyewitnesses reported two featherless flying creatures with wingspans of fifteen feet . Modern Pterodactyl Sightings Although there seems to be no hard evidence that pterosaurs did not die out millions of years ago - no pterosaurs have ever been captured and no bodies have ever been found - sightings have persisted. . Thunderbird is a term in cryptozoology for describing large, bird-like creatures; generally identified as legendary creature . This required using a low-magnification eyepiece, fortunately, to locate that galaxy, allowing the amateur astronomer to see the flying creature sweep through the field of view. two dragons. Several more have been reported from Texas and here is an interview with Scott Norman about his Pterodactyl sighting in California State. flying dinosaurs, in North Carolina, including Raleigh, Durham, Conover, Wilmington, Guilford County, Kernersville, and Charlottethese are not rumors but taken from emails to the cryptozoologist Jonathan Whitcomb, over a period of years. The point is this: pterosaurs still living. While traveling through Zambia in 1923, Frank H. Melland collected reports from natives of an aggressive flying reptile they called kongamoto, which means "overwhelmer of boats." 0. . I was driving along on I-540 in Raleigh at sundown tonight . The sighting by Wooten was at about 3:00 p.m. between Greenville and Florence, South Carolina. The following are just a few of the hundreds of Youtube videos, on the channel Protect Animal Life, about modern living pterosaurs: Why do people around the world report seeing a long-tailed pterodactyl? 'Pterodactyl' Sightings in New York, Pennsylvania & Maryland "My wife has told me a story of when she was backpacking around 1988 in the Adirondacks of upstate New York. Laura Dean, who encountered a huge flying creature in Central Arkansas in the spring of 2012. Apparently this is a genuine photo of a modern pterosaur, what some call the Civil War pterodactyl photo, although it was actually recorded AFTER the American Civil War. For sighting #1, in the. . There are also intriguing rock carvings and even photographs that suggest that this species of amazing flying monsters could have survived extinction, could have soared through the skies of the southwestern United States until very recently and might still exist in small numbers in remote parts of the world. I read a comment left under one of the videos on my Youtube channel Protect Animal Life. . This video is mostly about seven reported sightings of huge featherless flying creatures, most of the encounters being in Southern California. I was fishing at a gravel pit in Heyworth, IL and the dawn had just [broken]. For sighting #1, in the words of an eyewitness, It turned its head and looked right at me. Eyewitnesses from around the world testify of the featherless flying creatures that they have observed, unlike any bat and obviously not any bird. came another one . . Was there a head crest? . ### . Credibility verified by Whitcomb, but limited. Reflector Series I feel blessed that God has allowed me to see this creature that should not be here, and yet is, this strange dragon-like thing that lives somewhere in the woods in this redneck little town., Dragon Pterodactyl Living in California. with a head-body-tail ratio that was certainly not that of a bird. eyewitness JC): Subject: Pterodactyl Sighting In Irving TX "I was on my way to school this morning and I saw a very large flying creature above a nearby woodsy [area]. As reported in the Illustrated London News of February 9, 1856, the rock in which the creature had apparently been entombed for millions of years, contained a precise mold of its body. From the book Searching for Ropens and Finding God (third edition) we read about sightings of strange nocturnal flying creatures: That report prepared me for an email I received years later, early in 2012, about two men who had seen two huge flying creatures about twenty-five miles to the south, over San Diego [California]. We now consider the third sighting (perhaps not yet covered anywhere else). The body of the creature was taken to the nearby town of Gray, according to the story, where it was identified as a pterodactyl by a student of paleontology. . Although its not covered in this video, one thing Ive learned about living pterosaurs is that sightings are not nearly as rare as people would suppose. These four sighting reports of modern pterosaurs in California have perhaps never before been featured in a Youtube video. Original Civil War Pterosaur Photograph. The eyewitness said, As to there being any lights or luminescencethe grayish colored areas of my sketches was a dull grayish brown (Brackish) color that could easily be seen with the naked eye against the night sky. . Special effects or the return of a Pterosaur? . Ropen Sighting Near University of California at Irvine In the summer of 2007, a man was driving northwest on Campus Road, from the direction of the state university in Irvine, when he saw a gigantic flying creature pass in front of his car, at low elevation. The American World War II veteran Duane Hodgkinson reporting seeing a huge pterodactyl in a jungle clearing in New Guinea in 1944. Then . Pterodactyl with a Pee said: . . He described the dark gray or black animal as 30 feet long, with 15-16 feet of that being a tail. That just sounds like a mental illness. . As I stood there a creature glided down from my right to just above water level directly in front of me, no more than 50 from where I was. . This was just northeast of downtown Los Angeles. the freeway. Early in 2013, a musician reported a close encounter with a pterodactyl that flew in front of his car while he was driving on a highway in Raleigh, North Carolina, at sundown. 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